Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1930 at lower right, presented in the likely original frame and retaining an old typed label reading "Marjorie Conant Bush-Brown / High Museum of Art / 1262 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta, Ga. / "Georgia Negroes."

DOA 37.75 x 31.75 in.

Born in Boston, Marjorie Conant Bush-Brown studied at the Museum of Fine Arts School under Frank Benson, Edward Tarbell and Philip Haas. She later studied in Paris under Lucien Simon and Charles Cottet. She married Harold Bush-Brown in 1924 and moved to Atlanta, where he served as Head of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1925 until his retirement in 1957.

A noted portrait painter, Marjorie exhibited at public galleries including those in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. A painting of hers, also titled Georgia Negroes, was included in the 1933 exhibition Painting and Sculpture from 16 American Cities at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Blues Singer Over XYZ by Bush-Brown was exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939, alongside paintings by fellow Georgia artists Lamar Dodd and Hale Woodruff.

Stable craquelure; light surface grime; several scratches and small dent to background; small paint flakes to pink dress above crossed arms.

$500 - 1,000